- Artist/Maker:
- Joseph Breitenbach
- Bio:
- American, b. Germany, 1896-1984
- Title:
- We New Yorkers
- Date:
- 1942
- Medium:
- Gelatin silver print and collage
- Dimensions:
- 13 1/8 × 9 3/4 in. (33.3 × 24.8 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund
- Accession Number:
- 2009-2
Not On View
We New Yorkers is one of Joseph Breitenbach’s most profound Surrealist images. It explores the anxieties of postwar America, its eerie human presence a shimmering, ghostlike nervous system that hovers over an urban landscape. The themes of nuclear anxiety and urban alienation recur throughout the Surrealist imagery and iconography of The Twilight Zone.
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